Test All Things
Earnestly Contending For The Faith Which Was Once Delivered Unto The Saints
In ourselves, we are “worthy of death” as the scriptures say. Death is our natural portion as the earned and deserved “wages” of our sin. This is not so of the...
Many are the efforts of men and women to blot out the thoughts, the guilt and the fears which arise from their sins being on their minds and hearts. Some try to...
According to the LORD’s words that were to be spoken to Pharaoh, He redeems, delivers and liberates His people so that they might worship Him! “Thus said the LORD God of Israel,...
The apostle John in his first epistle states an amazing thing: “truly, our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ.” (1st John 1:3) Sinners like us having...
As we look around us at the blatant wickedness and immorality of the day, let us guard against the tendency to self-righteousness. If we have not been guilty of such things...
The apostle Paul wrote, “Much more then, being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.” (Romans 5:9) What a positive, comforting thing it is to hear “we shall...
“By Faith Abraham…” Abraham and the faith that God gave him as a gift of His grace are set forth in scripture many times as examples to God’s believing people. In the...
“Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.”(Song of Solomon 6:4) “Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as...
Any view of our being in Christ or being righteous by our union with Him that minimizes our death with Him and His death for us is error. If we could...
Salvation and submission are inseparable things. When we are saved by grace, we are brought to submit to God’s way of saving us and forsake our way. Thus any and all...
The Bible is a bloody book. From the first book to the last, a stream of blood flows. Its importance is seen by the testimony of God Himself. “For the life...
I have heard many say over the years that they agree with all but one of the doctrines of grace. Some will have none of unconditional election. Others reject the thought...
Does the bible make this statement, “God loves sinners”? What about, “God loves you”? I could not find them. What it does say is that God loved a people that He...
“But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received...
Ignorance is never bliss, especially in the time of trial. When afflictions and temptations come or friends fail and forsake, only one thing will suffice. That one thing is a heart-knowledge...
The apostle Paul describes the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ as a “building.” He says, “For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.”...
Elijah the prophet had the same essential needs as every other sinner. He will be provided for and cared for by his God in a way that causes him to lean...
Theology is the study of God. True theology then must be, not what men say about God, but what God says about Himself. This means that the one true theology book...
“Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret...
Looking at the scriptures, I find the revelation of God as the Father of His people throughout. In the first parts of the Old Testament God speaks of being a father...
Today’s smartphone technology gives the ability to take pictures wherever one has their phone. Not only can we take pictures of others, scenery and more, we can also take pictures of...
The word “satisfaction” has at least two meanings. First, it has to do with meeting and filling up that which is required. Secondly, with pleasing or making content the one satisfied....
“The second death” will be an endless witness to all, that man is a sinner, that God is just, that God’s threats were as true as His promises, that only the...
“Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.” (Hosea 4:17) In these words, there is a word from God to the prophet and therefore a word from the prophet to the...
We are often making statements that need to be qualified. Does the bible make this statement, “God loves sinners”? I could not find it. What it does says is that God...
No man has a true desire for the salvation of men’s souls who does not first have a desire for God to the honoured and glorified above all things. The individual who...
It is an exercise in futility to try to convince the natural man by various apologetics which appeal to human logic that God exists or that he needs salvation. None become “Christians”...
The recent home-going of a dear friend and brother, Scott Richardson, has brought to my mind many pleasant remembrances of him. Once when I was going through a great trial, he called...
I cannot help but relate to you another experience I had with Brother Scott Richardson which the LORD used to teach me something. Once while he was preaching for us in...
Many claim to be preachers of Christ, saying, “We preach Jesus.” But the preaching of Christ is not the mere repeating of His name. It is not just saying, “Believe on...
“And you He hath quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins.” (Ephesians 2:1) The greatest evidence of spiritual death is that men and woman who do not know the true...
At the center of man-made religion is man’s choice. They say such things as “God’s done all He can do, He’s made salvation available, now it’s up to you, it’s your...
There has never been a time when the eternal Jehovah did not look to Christ, the Lamb slain, as the ground of all His blessings to and the salvation of His...
“For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” (1st Timothy 2:5) Paul’s words to Timothy go out to all the world as an...
Paul, in the book of Romans, reminds us that “Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.” (Romans 11:1-6) A “remnant” is a...
Paul wrote in Romans 1:16-17 – “For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ: … For therein is the righteousness of God revealed …” It must be then that where there...
Many people dabble with the doctrines of grace. They like to discuss them and debate them. They like to read what men say about them. But in their heart, they have...
The standard by which many in Christ’s day measured His claims and His doctrine was this: “Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?” (John 7:48) It...
“We love him, because He first loved us.” (1st John 4:19) Almost everybody claims to love God. Surely the great number of folks associated in some way with religion do. But according to...
The Bible opens with these words, “In the beginning God…” Without explanation and without seeking to prove the existence of God, it declares God as the Creator and Originator of all...
“But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.” (Job 23:13) Some think they do God a favor or make...
“Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all...
The apostle Paul minces no words when he describes all who abandon and do not provide for their own households: “But if any provide not for his own, and specially for...
Paul writes to the Church at Colosse saying that they had been reconciled to God through the death of Christ and by His death they would stand holy and unreproveable in...
I sometimes hear preachers say something like this: “Christ had to become all I am to save me.” Their view is that Christ is an absolute substitute. But where do they...
I have never cared much for the term “reformed.” First of all, it is not a prominent Bible word, nor is it ever used to refer to God’s elect. They are...
When the apostle Paul speaks of the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus Christ in Philippians 2:8, he distinguishes that death from all others by referring to it as “the death of...
The apostle gives this command by the Spirit of God in Romans 12:2: “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may...
Test All Things 